abstract background: the aim of this study was to compare the effects of the second- and third-generation oral contraceptives on women’s reproductive sexual function. materials and methods: this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial was conducted on 82 married women of reproductive age in tehran. samples were randomized into the groups receiving second- and third-generatio...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Priority setting in health research is a dynamic process. Different organizations and institutes have been working in the field of research priority setting for many years. In 1999 the Global Forum for Health Research presented a research priority setting tool called the Combined Approach Matrix or CAM. Since its development, the CAM has been successfully applied to set r...

the main purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting the validity of the results of the student evaluation. the research method was mixed method. participants of the qualitative part were masters of educational science and participants of the quantitative part were bsc students of psychology and educational sciences of state universities of tehran entered in 1389 and 1390. in the qu...

Second and t hird vi rial coeffi cie nts for para hydroge n ha ve been derived fr om closelv spaced PVT data from 24 t o 100 OK . They are in good agreemen t at J 00 oK wi t h publis hed data for normal hydrogen . An aly t ical represe nta t io ns of t he co mbined data fr om. a bout 20 t o 423 OK are presented whi ch may be usefu l in co mpu tat io n of t hermody na mi c fun ctio ns of the gas...

In these notes we briefly review asymptotic results for the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process and the totally asymmetric constant-rate zero-range process, in the presence of particles with different priorities. We review the Law of Large Numbers for a second class particle added to those systems and we present the proof of crossing probabilities for a second and a third class particle...